Improvement in clothes-wringers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIGESMUND- H. STBAUSS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-WRINGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,342, dated September 22, 1874; application filed September 5, 1874.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Beit known that I, SIGEsMUND H. STRAUss, of Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Clothes-Wringers, of which the following is a specification:

The drawings accompanying this specification represent, in Figures l and 2, vertical sections of a clothes-wringer frame or standard embodying my improvements.

A represents an upright forked standard, substantially as is now generally in use in clothes-wringers, and by which the implement is attached to the side of the tub. Upon the top of this standard I place a plate-spring, B, of the form shown in Fig. 1 of the. drawingsthat is to say, as substantially in the form of a yoke, one of whose arms (the upper) terminates in a semicircular bend, a, and the other, b, being a iiat plate, and bent in an opposite direction, and constituting the base or support of such spring. The base bis securely attached to the top of the standard A by a bolt, c, and nut d, the bolt passing` upward through the shelf ofthe standard. The inner upper corner of the standard A is formed with a semicircular depression, e, to receive one journal of the lower roll of the wrin ger, while the adjacent journal of the upper roll iinds a bearing in the bend. a of the spring` B.

It will be seen that the said bend or bearing a is outside of or overhan gs the bearing e. By this arrangement the water which is eX- pressed from the clothes is prevented from creeping or dropping from the ends of the rolls back upon such clothes after they have been wrung.

By my mode of applying the spring A, and the employment with it of the bearing e, the two bearings adapt themselves to the journals of the rolls, as in bolting the spring to the standard the bearing a naturally finds a seat upon the upper `journal.

Many wringers now in use employ a spring in the form of a yoke or letter S, both of whose extremities terminate in a bearing, one for the journal of the upper roll, and the other for the journal of the lower roll, the spring being secured rigidly to the standard of the wringer. In the production of these latter springs the bearings frequently become twisted or thrown out of alignment with each other, and, as a consequence, will not fit the journals of the rolls, and it is a matter of much time and difficulty to properly adjust them. Indeed, in 4many instances they are not properly adjusted, and the implement is very imperfect. My invention avoids these dii-'fioulties, and enables the spring to adapt itself instantly and automatically to the lower bearing e and the two journals.

I claim- The bent spring, formed as described, with a bearing for the upper roll in its free end, in combination with the standard formed with a bearing for the lower roll, and a seat upon which the spring is iXed and held, substantiall y as shown and set forth.

SIGESMUND H. STRAUSS.

Witnesses F. CURTIS, FRANCIS E. FAXAN. 

